Context-aware service composition

Abstract

The need for defining flexible and dynamic composed services that can adapt to the execution environment in an easy and quick way brings a new challenge to service centric system development and use. In this article, we present an innovative, easy-to-handle solution that supports the development of self-configuring and context-aware compositions from design time to implementation level. We discuss the steps that the service integrators should follow to create context-aware service compositions and also introduce a composition platform that supports the lifecycle of dynamic compositions both at design-time and at runtime. In order to demonstrate that our approach enables the development of context-aware service composition, we focus on a real case study in the automotive and telecommunication domains, where the evaluation results may be useful to understand, supervise and improve our approach to support dynamic compositions.